is this really an improvement? i understand the value in shortening thecode where appropriate, but the old version seems far more intuitive thanthe new one (to me, anyway -- i'd have to look at the javadocs forPreparedStatement to be sure of what's going on).

maybe that doesn't matter, but there are times when i'd prefer code to beclear rather concise -- maybe i've just read too many obfuscated c codecontest entries. fwiw -- in terms of the actual byte code generated --i'd guess these two are equivalent.